Score a run, win your prize.

﻿To earn your prize for Eagles Read: Books and Bases — either a ticket to the Brewers game or your $10 Amazon gift card — you need to read the book One Shot at Forever AND score a run by completing at least two activities during your "inning," or three-week reading period. Each activity is worth a different amount of "bases," and you need four "bases" to score a run. Consider completing activities with a partner. Record your "bases" using the form below. Activity ideas are listed below the form.

Visit Mrs. Kent and/or Ms. Doyle in the ILC and tell us about your favorite part of the book.

Tweet/Instagram/etc. using #lakeseaglesread about your participation in this challenge.

Tell someone else about the book — a parent, a sibling, a friend... — in person, in an email, or through social media.

Design a bookmark about the book.

Summarize the book using Emojis. Share your summary using #lakeseaglesread on social media.

Come up with a good activity idea for this challenge and share it with Mrs. Kent and Ms. Doyle.

Other? Get approval from Ms. Doyle and/or Mrs. Kent.

Double activities

Create a baseball card for a player. The front should include a photo, his name, and his position, and the back should include a stat summary or character description.

Do a little research about one of the Ironmen and write no more than a paragraph about what they are up to now. Don’t forget citations!

Go to a Lakes baseball or softball game.

A movie is coming out about the book. Cast at least 7 of the characters with real-life actors.

Draw/paint/etc. Lynn Sweet. Support your ideas with evidence from the book.

Who is your “Lynn Sweet”? Write a letter to an adult in your life who has been inspirational in some way or another.

Lynn Sweet required his English students to write their own obituary. Write yours. A paragraph will do. What will be your greatest accomplishments in life? What will be your legacy?

Attend a 20 to 30-minute book discussion in the ILC after school on Tuesday, February 23; Tuesday, March 15; or Tuesday, April 12. OR organize your own Google Hangout (and invite Mrs. Kent and Ms. Doyle, please).

Create a storyboard for one chapter of the book.

Interview a baseball or softball player or a coach about their love of the game. At least 10 questions required.

Reimagine the book cover. Draw it up or create something electronically.

Learn how to score a baseball game. Watch a YouTube tutorial or ask someone who already knows how to teach you.

Play a game of catch! Talk about the book as you play.

Other? Get approval from Ms. Doyle and/or Mrs. Kent.

Triple activities

Create a podcast related to the book — maybe a play-by-play of one of the games or an interview with one or two of the players. It should be about a minute in length.

Compare and contrast Macon, Illinois at the time of the book with Lake Villa at the time of the book. This will require some research. Find at least 10 similarities or differences about the towns. For example, the population of the towns, the main industries, the high school (academics and activities), etc. Present this to us visually — Venn diagram, slideshow, etc. Include citations!

Create a 25-question multiple choice test about the book.

Watch a baseball movie. How is the story similar to One Shot at Forever? Different? Present these in a table, Venn diagram, or another visual way.

Create a book trailer (about one and half to two minutes in length).

Adapt one chapter of the book for a play or movie.

Make the story a board game.

Create a 3D retelling of the book — a diorama, topographical map, sculpture of player, a cake...